HOW WIDE IS HE ?????

HUNTER231 · Oct 9, 2008

What is the width of the buck in the back?
Please dont say 26" 160 "RAT" "LOL"
Happy hunting im off for the opener Idaho rifle hopefuly with some LUCK I will have some pics to post on Monday.
GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL HAVE A FUN AND SAFE WEEKEND.

PS. I have the answer to this one!

bearman · Oct 9, 2008

Frontier · Oct 9, 2008

silverstatehunter · Oct 9, 2008

34 inches.

T264 · Oct 9, 2008

37 1/2" (rubber tape measured)

T264

sonofthesouth · Oct 9, 2008

I have seen that picture in person in a cafe in Paris Idaho...is that where you took that? I'm positive about that! Heck of a nice buck- The photo looked pretty old so I'm curious if it your familys picture or if you were in the same cafe?

Son

HUNTER231 · Oct 9, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Oct-09-08 AT 11:40AM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Oct-09-08 AT 11:36?AM (MST)

My grampa and his freind took pic from highway at the summit of logan canyon. I will get the original pic and scan it in this is a copy that I scanned a few year ago with our old pos scanner. I will get the original from my granpa and rescann it. I have looked at that pic for years and to this day it still get the old heart pumpin. Maybe one day I will run into one of those elusive giants. In season with my rifle or bow in hand that is. But it is still awsome to see no matter when it is.

HUNTER231 · Oct 9, 2008

You don't need no rubber tape!

HNTBIGBULLS · Oct 9, 2008

34, I also seen this photo in the Paris cafe,
I have always been told it was taken in Paris
canyon back in the good old days. You don't see
them like that anymore in that area.

SneakAttack · Oct 9, 2008

One more for 34"

cjboz · Oct 9, 2008

37" He is pretty wide at the top!

Mounts02 · Oct 9, 2008

35 and 2/8"

west · Oct 9, 2008

Just glancing at the pic. I don't think there are very many bucks in that picture i wouldn't put on my wall. As for the biggin i would say 35"

slamdunk · Oct 9, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Oct-09-08 AT 05:31PM (MST)[p]I'd almost bet my 401K that is an old picture of "Popeye" on the Wyoming winter range.

257Tony · Oct 9, 2008

26 1/2"--161" RAT!!!

thebuckstopshere · Oct 9, 2008

Closer to 40" than 30".

eelgrass · Oct 9, 2008

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Slam, I could make that bet also. My 401K is only worth about $12.....and dropping.

Eel

txhunter58 · Oct 9, 2008

I got a $100 buring a hole in my pocket that says he is 30 inches plus! LOL

Bottom line: Great picture!

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)

slamdunk · Oct 9, 2008

Eel
LMAO....good point!!
But...........i still say that's popeye, $12 or $85K!!

Maybe i better check my 401K...i mean 201K and see if there's anything left!!

ELKOHUNTER · Oct 9, 2008

41 1/2

slamdunk · Oct 9, 2008

Here's a frontal picture of the famous "Popeye".
(couldn't find a rear picture)

http://www.kingsoutdoorworld.com/room/sheds_popeye.htm

This is the same buck.....i gurantee it.

It's simply an old picture hanging in a store in Idaho, but it's definately popeye on the Wyoming winter range.

Elkcrzy1 · Oct 9, 2008

Ok Im not going to offer a bet I know your all disappointed. Im just going to say 36" and leave it alone at that...lol

ELKOHUNTER · Oct 9, 2008

that says he was never shot. is that true? I thought he was.

slamdunk · Oct 9, 2008

Nope elko, Popeye was never killed by a hunter.
He shed his antlers that last spring and they found his body not too far away from the sheds, died of old age and plain old winter kill.
He is part of the "Wyoming Legends".
Marty, Popeye and Goliath.
The artist Brent Todd has several paintings of these magnificent bucks, check out his website.

ELKOHUNTER · Oct 9, 2008

now Goliath was shot. I have never herd about the other buck.

HNTBIGBULLS · Oct 10, 2008

Slam, it isn't popeye, I seen this photo
well before popeye showed up, I am thinking
1988 0r 89 in the paris cafe. and if I
remember right the photo was taken in the
late 70s.

balz · Oct 10, 2008

33 what a stud thanks for the post
Jordan

slamdunk · Oct 10, 2008

HTNBIGBULLS-

Wow, i surrender my 201K then...
But i bet we have now seen Popeye's father!!

Yes, Goliath was shot.
Morty was my personal favorite "legend".

AZMIGHTYMULIES · Oct 10, 2008

This picture is in the "Idahos Greatest Mule Deer". Stud of a buck irregardless. A true resemblance of the "Popeye Buck".
I will guess him being 40' wide.

BrowningRage · Oct 10, 2008

I gotta disagree whole-heartedly that this is Popeye. They have similar antler configuration, but Popeye was much wider and his tine length was longer than this "Logan Canyon" buck. You can especially tell on the right G2-G3 fork... No extras there either like on Popeye...

Still he's a brute, I'd say 34"

Bozeman · Oct 10, 2008

36-37 inside. My wifes grandpa shot one that looks identical to that one. It measures 37 inside and 42 outside with cheaters. They are awesome

mike111 · Oct 10, 2008

I'll guess 38".

sonofthesouth · Oct 11, 2008

I agree that this buck is not popeye, the picture pre dates. Popeye, its just a great ole picture of a great ole buck, the kind that you never see anymore, (unless of coarse you were with me in january in NM a couple of years ago). I hunted with the guy that killed Goliath here in NM a few years ago, he was telling me about the hunt and how it went down-what a great story and an awesome deer!

Son

T264 · Oct 11, 2008

Son,

Should'nt you be out hunting/scouting? LOL

T264

marburg · Oct 11, 2008

any pictures of goliath??

lv4huntn · Oct 12, 2008

this photo is also in the back of Idahos Greatest Mule Deer by Ryan Hatfield. the caption says.
"This great photo was taken by Jerry Tuller in Bear Lake County in January, 1984. There were twenty six bucks, but in order to get the wide one in the middle, he could only get twelve of them in the picture."

Dan